shell-like

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shell-like

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From shell + -like.

adjective more shell-like · most shell-like · shelllike

  1. Having a similar shape to a seashell.
  2. dated, literary Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell. "Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a woman who in aught, ay, in one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an ey

noun shell-likes · shelllike

  1. Australia, UK, especially, slang The ear. Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?

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